Every Day The Same Dream

Another brilliant casual, artistic, and thought-provoking game.

Every Day The Same Dream.

Simple Flash game, but the idea is along the lines of The Graveyard, or Dear Esther.

Although the music is appropriate, I find Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is The Same somehow eerily appropriate.

[Chorus:]
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

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Lyrics

The Journey of Life

More experimental gaming:

Hazard: The Journey of Life is an experimental game mod for Unreal Tournament.



Unfortunately I don't have UT3 so I cannot play it.

The world needs more games like this.

More information on IndieGames and the author's webpage.

More on Dear Esther Mod

An extensive interview with the creator, academic Dan Pinchbeck.

I previously blogged about the mod, and highly recommend it. The experience is fantastic.

ModDB link.

Dear Esther Is An Experience

A HL2 mod brought to my attention at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, it is not anything like a typical fps. More akin to the The Graveyard, this experience is not something you 'play', but the world is something you inhabit, if only for a little time.












Fragments of the narrative are triggered upon crossing the island, apparently in somewhat random fashion, making the story reveal itself in a decidedly non-linear fashion. Marks scrawled upon the rock reveal another level of story, one that intermingles with the voices in your (its, their, our?) head.

How do you 'play' procedural poetry?

Are there even words to describe experiential gameplay?

Embedded post modern narratives?

Inhabited bodies of discordant discontent?

Or is it all simply acting?

Game/Art/Experience

What is this? Are you playing it or experiencing it? Does it matter?

















Concept Art by [ToT]Auriea.

The Graveyard by Tale of Tales.


From Wired but a lot of commentary on other sites:

IndieGamer.
The Escapist.
GamersHell.com.
RockPaperShotgun.